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Reviews by ChrisA:

Served on a nitro-tap at Jack Quinn's downtown Colorado Springs. They list it as their Jack Quinn's Pub Ale. Love the thick creamy head via the nitro-tap. Poured a cloudy copper color. Nice full hop aroma. Creamy feel and good bitterness. Piney. One of my favorite IPA's on tap around town. Only bottled in 22 ounce bombers. One of the better Bristol Brewing offerings.

A vigorous pour produces a nice enough froth. This bottle is showing age as purchased at Wilbur's in Fort Collins. It's not bad, but I wish the brewery would invest in best buy dates before they ramp up production.
Immense aroma rises up like hot caramel off a copper kettle followed by tendrils of grassy, spicy hops. The froth is a little lazy, and the lace is tattered. Still, the dried orange peel colored presentation is nice.
Nice dose of hops comes across as almost woody - dry. Yeah, grassy and spicy. Caramel glaze and a little toasty malt. Fantastic mouthfeel about 3/4 through a pint, then it gets a little stickier. It's a perfectly wonderful American IPA. It's not over-the-top, just a pleasant drinking experience. Yes, the depth and balance are there to call it an experience. Nice floral flourishes. The alcohol ifeels a bit stronger then listed. Umm, yeah.

This is quite the exceptional IPA. Thanks to Crosling for including it as a bonus in a trade.

The beer pours to a fairly cloudy golden color. Whoops, I think I poured the sediment. Builds a nice towering white head with great retention provided by a constant stream of carbonation. Laces moderately well.

The smell is very piney and grapefruity with a bit of floral. The hops bouquet dominates the aroma. Only a hint of bready pale malt.

The taste reminds me of a mix between Two Hearted and Stone IPA, almost. Has the piney grapefruit as well as the floral and zesty hops with a very clean pale malt character. Just the perfect amount of bitterness with a lingering pine resin. Just a bit catty.

The body is medium with the perfect carbonation to accentuate the hops. Very crisp and refreshing, but plenty of IBUs as well. I could drink a lot of this, and at 5.3% it is easily sessionable, if only it were available here...

Poured a dark and hazy amber color with a smaller sized off white head. Aromas of grapefruit, oranges, and light flowers. Tastes of grapefruit, oranges, grass and caramel. Has a nice sweet and bitter balance.

medium body, crisp, peppy. bitterness is slightly prohibitive and interferes somewhat with the medium hop flavors. just as i'm catching some of the non-citrus hop complexity, the bitterness hits me out of left field and masks all of the remaining flavor. it lingers, albeit fresh and botanical, far through and past the initial sip. i'm able to pull many more flavors out of the beer if i leave it in my mouth and allow it to warm. still, it's more of a resinous, earthy filth that rules the school here.

this beer is very drinkable and brilliantly showcases columbus hops, although the attempt to balance its aggressiveness seems to get a little too messy and covers up much of the potential flavor. with warmth, i'm able to draw some additional floral spiciness and perfumey hops.. the malts, which seem honey-accented, are so far in the background drowned out by green cones.

something good for us east coasters, but i think this is just average out west.

M/D: A very dry mouth type of feel that was light but also a good sugary feel as well. The drinkability was very good do to the taste and the smell well everything about the beer made it very drinkable I highly recommend this beer.

Big, big, clumpy billowing head. Looks great perched atop a dark orange/burgundy body. Sticky, good lacing. Quick swirl will rebuild the head.
Grapefruit, citrus and some pine move in and out with the nose. Nothing dominates, very complex, but an IPA to be sure.
Pine and citrus flavors come and go in a battle for dominance. Slick feel to it, perhaps a bit thin and not quite as dry as I thought it would be. A solid IPA from the Springs

Bottle from a friend as a gift. Pours bright orange with a lasting head and some lacing. Smell is astringent, metallic, funky and lightly of feet. Taste is chalky, battery like metallic flavor and bad, odd, hops. I really didn't enjoy this one at all.

Poured from a 22oz bomber bought from the great Wilbur's Total Beverage.

Oh what a glorious head! This head reminds of fluffy clouds and makes me want to go frolic within its creamy goodness and trust me, I am not one for frolicking. I must say this may be on of the best heads on a beer I have seen. Not only does it retain throughout the pint, but it is fluffy and structured. It reminds me of the foam at a foam party, just sticks around forever and you can shovel it around making it pile up. Ok. Enough about the head.

The smell is hoppy as promised on the label. 29 types of hops? I believe it. It's hard to place a finger on a characteristic hop in this smell, but it is nothing if not hoppy.

The taste comes through, with a complex hop taste, hints of pine and citrus. It is balanced nicely with a slightly burnt malt flavor. I'm not sure if this was intentional or not, but it comes through as a pleasant flavor and balances nicely with the hops.

The mouthfeel is slick, slightly oily feeling but the intense carbonation gives it a nice feel. Not as full bodied as some, but no unpleasant in the least.

Overall, this is a solid IPA. I would certainly not complain about having to drink this frequently, but with some many great IPAs on the market, it's tough competition. I'm not sure this is one I buy this again given the options available, but it is definitely worth a try.

S: Good grapefruit notes along with a strong malt (cold wort) presence that I notice in a lot of Bristol's beers.

T: Standard piney hop flavors up front followed by a very starchy, malty finish. There are hints of overly-steeped tea as well.

M and D: Fairly standard. Like I said at the beginning, this is a passable (medium body, tasty, inoffensive) IPA that reveals itself entirely in the first sip.

In terms of Bristol's beers, this is a bit of a letdown for the Edge City series (Harvest Ale and Octoberfest were both great!), but it's also easy to see why this is one of their biggest sellers at the brewery. There are plenty of better IPAs on the market, but this one isn't bad.

Pours with a brilliantly clear, reddish amber color that is topped by a frothy, initially three-finger thick, tan colored head. The aroma is quite fruity; ample notes of grapefruit, candied orange peel and apricot. There is a nice toasty maltiness here underneath the up front and dominant American Citrus fruit. After a bit a touch of alcohol is noticeable towards the end of the nose.

The taste is sweet up front, which helps to accentuate the ample hop notes, or at least the fruity sides of them. Notes of pine and a touch of menthol round out what is otherwise dominated by citrus notes of apricot, ruby red grapefruit, lychee, and candied orange peel. Caramelized malt notes become noticeable towards the middle, but then morph into a toasted biscuit-type malt note. The beer has a nice tongue gripping bitterness to it that adds a lingering bit to this beer from the get go. The finish has a mix of hops and alcohol that combine to give this beer a touch of astringent hotness; or more positively a bit of a raw, hoppy edge. This has just enough body to make it balance the agressive hop levels, yet not keep it from being quite drinkable.

This is definitely hitting the spot right now, I was certainly wishing for some hops tonight and this definitely is hitting the spot. This IPA is certainly big on hops; mostly it is smooth citrus notes, but there are also some more raw notes of pine and green hops.

An average IPA. More of a mild English version than American. Pours a brown color with a tan head. The nose had some bready malts and subtle hops. The taste was similar. A decent amount of bitter hops and grainy malts. Average body and carbonation. A fairly drinkable brew from Brisol.

received this in big trade with russpowell, thanks again Russ! Bristol's Edge City pours a polished copper with good clarity. Few carbonation bubbles present that head slowly to the surface. A big billowy three finger ivory head formed on the pour and left big chunky lace on its way down the glass and finally settling to a healthy fingers worth of dense cragginess. This is an excellent looking IPA.

A big lush caramel and toasty maltiness is the first thing to hit the nose and forms an excellent base for this IPA. The maltiness quickly drops back and a solid hopping comes forth to steal the show. The hops consist of a good deal of fruitiness including ripe orange, bitter grapefruit, and a touch of apricot all in that order of intensity. There's even a mint-like hop character that when added to the clean alcohol fumes really brings out all the hoppiness. I like the aroma of this beer more and more as I continue to smell.

A blast of sweet caramel right up front quickly transitions into a mild toasted maltiness. The hops, again, are the showcase of this beer and have a great depth. Orange and bitter grapefruit dominate but there are hints of pine, mint, and apricot on the finish. The low level clean alcohol fumes make the hops more pronounced on this beer which is exactly what I like to see.

The mouthfeel is moderate but moves through the mouth at a quick pace thanks to the ample carbonation. The carbonation keeps this beer moving without being too aggressive. Finishes a bit dry which accentuates the hops even more.

I could easily sit back and polish off a couple of these in a night. Edge City goes down extremely easily and is a treat on a warm day like today.

This is a damn fine IPA from Bristol Brewing. I'd like to get my hands on a couple more of these and if it was local would be a mainstay in my fridge.

A 22 ounce bomber bottle poured into a standard shaker glass. This ale appears a clear deep amber color with two fingers of fluffy off white head. The head settles to about a half inch layer and sticks around for nearly the entire glass. Aromas and flavors are of assorted citrus fruits such as grapefruit and orange, a decent amount of sweet malts, and subtle floral hops. With a satisfying mouthfeel and adequate carbonation, this ale was quite enjoyable. Nothing over the top, just a nice, well made IPA.

It started to gush right after the cap came off; I hope it's still ok.

Nice cloudy orange yelow colour with a 2 finger head of foam.

The smell is nice with good caramel malt and some citrus hops...nicely balanced.

The taste has that balance as well. Nice hop citrus bitterness up front and then the sweet malt, and some breadiness, moves in and dominates from about mid palate on until the finish where it returns to some good hop bitterness. Yum, this is a very nice malty American IPA that, I think, leans more towards an English style. I say that because I don't think a couple of months would make that much difference in the taste ie the hop profile couldn't have shrunk that much during that time sitting in my fridge.

Anywho, the mouthfeel actually borders on full & the carbonation is medium. Head retention is very good and it doesn't lack for lacing. Very nice stuff and 1 that I'll look for again.